I hate Microsoft and Windows, I want to choose better AND more importantly, see what all this fuss about Linux being awesomest is about

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    6 days ago

    PopOS is very old I would recommend against it to anyone not already stuck with it.

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      6 days ago

      PopOS was only initially released in 2017, making it one of the newer distributions. It is actively developed and really pushing the needle in the community. It is a great option. Don’t know what distro you’re actually thinking of, but it isn’t Pop.

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        6 days ago

        Let me explain, the current version of pop is based on the 22.04 branch of Ubuntu. They’ve been in dev hell trying to update to the 24.04 branch.

        As a consequence it doesn’t have full support of more modern hardware and you can run into libc issues trying to run precompiled binaries.

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          6 days ago

          Fair enough, but assuming you’re using any of several package managers, seems like libc shouldn’t be an issue. Nevertheless, I clearly misunderstood you. Anyway, alpha 7 for 24.04 is out now.

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            5 days ago

            My fault, I should have been more clear.

            Yeah, I’ve mostly noticed the issue working on projects with people sharing builds.